Jim Morrison: Death Theory 3

DEATH THEORY 3: Marianne Faithfull is known for her legendary music and her rock n’ roll lifestyle of drugs and sex with Mick Jagger, but did you know that in 2014 Faithfull revealed to Mojo that her boyfriend at the time, a heroin dealer named Jean de Breteuil, was responsible for Morrison's demise? “He went to see Jim Morrison and killed him,” Faithfull tells Mojo. “I mean, I’m sure it was an accident. Poor bastard. The smack was too strong? Yeah. And he died. And I didn’t know anything about this. Anyway, everybody connected to the death of this poor guy is dead now. Except me.” The singer goes on, recalling a "sense of foreboding" when Breteuil told her he was heading out to Morrison's Paris apartment. She decided to stay behind and "take barbiturates." My kind of girl.

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Room 32

This is not a photo of Jim Morrison's apartment in Paris where he died. This is Room 32 at the Alta Cienega Hotel in West Hollywood (1005 N. La Cienega Blvd.). This now run down room was once Jim Morrison's sanctuary where he escapes to whenever his girlfriend, Pamela Courson, kicks him out of their nearby apartment. He'd stumbles back to this room after drunken nights out at Barney's Beanery and unleashes his inner "Lizard King" with his groupies. He stays in this room while recording "L.A. Woman" across the street. The sound booth is now a stall in a restroom with a plaque commemorating Morrison's hit - I should know, I peed in this stall when it was an Italian restaurant. After his death in 1971, his fans made Room 32 their personal shrine to the man - the room now rents by the minute. 

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